In Hosea chapter 8, God lays out Israel’s hypocrisy and the irony of the consequences of their actions. They have spurned God, rejecting his love and provision, only to turn to flimsy replacements. They had turned to their own enemies and so God warns that he will spurn their idols…

In Hosea chapter 7, God’s frustration with his people builds and he gives four similes for how Israel has been unfaithful. They are like an over-heated oven, a half-baked cake, a silly dove, and a treacherous bow. God goes into poetic detail about how his people had not only failed…

In Hosea chapter 6, Hosea pleads with Israel to return to the Lord. In their sin they had not only broken the Law of God, but had broken covenant with him. He points to the Lord in his faithfulness to restore them if they would just repent and know him…

In Hosea chapter 5, God continues to bring forth his contentions with Israel. He lays out their sin, holds the priests and royal leaders responsible, and warns of the impending judgement on the people. Israel is going to receive the punishment and discipline that is justly due to them. But…

In Hosea chapter 4, the prophet’s focal point is the people. God continues to lay out accusations against Israel as a legal proceeding. He not only lists their offenses, but proceeds to reveal the cause for their transgression and future consequences. The Israelites had broken God’s law, the first of…

Hosea 3 3 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” Hosea 3:1 In Hosea chapter 3, God commands for Hosea to redeem…

  Hosea 2 2 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” 2 “Plead with your mother, plead—for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband—that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; 3 lest I…

  Hosea 1 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.” 11 And the children of Judah and the children…